Approximately 2 billion people lack access to emergency and essential surgical care (Funk
and others 2010). Most of the need is in rural and marginalized populations living in low-and …

Great strides have been made during the past 50 years in the diagnosis and management of
congenital anomalies, once referred to as birth defects. Formally fatal conditions can now be …

Background: Undernutrition accounts for at least 50% of the annual global under-five
mortality burden. Although disparities in the childhood stunting between urban and rural …

Background Surgical site infections (SSI) are a significant cause of post-surgical morbidity
and mortality and can be an indicator of surgical quality. The objectives of this study were to …

Purpose Little is known about the prevalence of pediatric surgical conditions in low-and
middle-income countries. Many children never seek medical care, thus the true prevalence …

Background Congenital anomalies have risen to become the fifth leading cause of under-
five mortality globally. The majority of deaths and disability occur in low-and middle-income …

Background This study attempts to quantify the burden of disease averted through the global
surgical work of a large cleft charity, and estimate the economic impact of this effort over a 10 …

Background While some data exist for the burden of pediatric surgical disease in low-and
middle-income countries (LMICs), little is known about pediatric surgical capacity. In an effort …

Objective While National Surgical, Obstetric and Anaesthesia Plans (NSOAPs) have
emerged as a strategy to strengthen and scale up surgical healthcare systems in low/middle …

Attention to surgical conditions in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) has increased
in recent years. Because half of the population in the world's poorest countries are children …